Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1888 — Call for Republican Precinct Conventious. [ARTICLE]

Call for Republican Precinct Conventious.

Office of the Reitblicax j ..—CVUHTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE. • Rensselaer, Jan, 4, 1888. \ To the Kepublicanxof J»*per County: In accmTance with a c::H issued by the Republican State Central Committee, under date of Dec. 29, 1887, precinct mass conventions of the Republican voters of Jasper county are directed to be held on Sfaturihifa Jtuiuary ?/, Ls'&S, beginning at 2- o’clock p. each township in the at the following places: The North and South precincts tr Marion township, in the court house, at Rensselaer. The East and W est precincts of Carpenter township, in Exchange Hall, Remington (or some- other convenient place to be designated by the officers of the present precinct committees. In each of the other townships : f the county, in the usual voting j lace of the township. yln each of these prdcinct conventions the following business <hall be transacted: 1. A precinct committee, consisting of a chairman and not less than four additional members shall 1 be elected, to succeed the present preeiact committee. The eiiair’iian of the committee so elected to *e a member of the county central committee. 2. One delegate and one alter—nateshalHw) elected to represent the. precinct at a Congressional district Convention, to’be held at Logansport, on Thursday, Feb. 2,1888, for the purpose of electing a State Central Committeeman for the district., • The members of the county central committee, elected at the precinct conventions herein called,! . will meet in Rensselaer on Satur- i day. Jan. 28,1888, at 2 o'clock p, ’ M., to conTplete the organization of the county committee by the elec-i Lon of chairman, secretary and treasurer, and to transact svchotl:- ! er business as to them may seem advisable. M. F. Chilcote, Chm. CL E:' Marshall, Secy. ihie nomination to a sent in the Supreme Court of L. Q. C. Lamar, ‘•.’ho violated hiso&Ui of allegiance Co go into rebellion against th? t'nion, who has declared by his \ ote that tlie amendments to Constitution which were pledges of reconstruction and the embodiments cf the n suits of the war, are not equally binding with the rest of tin Constitution; who has denied that levying war against the governririent wah’ treasoii, and who owes his seat in the Senate and his political power and prominence sole- ■ ly to the suppression of Republican votes by violence and fratid. was an insult lb ttie entire loyal &>pulatidh es the' Union,” and be resented by the unanimous of all the Republican senator? gainst his confirtnatioii:

Republican voters of Jasper county should pay heed to the cell for precinct conventions, in this issue of The Republican. They should read the call, ndte well, the purposes for which it is issued, re..solve to attend their precinct con - vention, and do what they can to induce their neighboring Republicans to do likewise. This is the year for tbe Q redemption of State ■ and Nation from the disgraces, detriments and impending disasters of Democratic misrule; ancTif Republicans will begin at the beginning and do their whole duty to the end, it can and will be done. The organization of these precinct and county committees is a work of prime importance to the welfare of the party and demands the help and counsel of every earnest Republican.

- TheTgnorant amateur statesman who now occupies the presidential chair, by the grace of- "systematic suppression of the right of free suffrage and honest counts, has probably often heard of a gentleman named .Thpiuas;.Jefferson, although be probably knows nothing of t!ie re;.r principles and teaclireally great man. tut little likelihood, for ifpvaiico, shat he, or many others of "the so-c’alled Jeffcrsouian Democrats of the present day, ever heatd <>f c«r poudexeti the following passage from Mr. Jefferson’s last presidential message, delivered to Congress Nov., 8, 1808: “The probable accumulation the surpluses of revenue beyo'ftd what can be applied -to tlie-^pay-ment of the public the freedom and safety of our commerce shall be restored, meritsdhe consideration of Congress. it lie unproductive in tbef publicvaults? iojirill the revenue be reduced? Or shall it not not rather be appropriated to the improvment of ibads, canals, rivfers, education and Other great foundations of prosperity and union under the powers which Congress may already possess, or such amendment to th 6 Constitution as may be approved by the States?